Vampire Stalks at Noon
        NOTE: I DO NOT OWN KNUCKLES, SONIC, TAILS, ETC. THEY ARE ALL         
              PROPERTY OF SEGA INC.



   One day Knuckles was guarding the master emerald. He had just 
finished 
fighting of Robotnik when Mighty came.
"Hey, Knux! You work too hard!" He shouted from about 5 metres away, "I 
gotta get some cash but I hate working. If only I could get payed to 
fight..." He murmered.
"Heard that." Knux replied, "Hey, how about I pay you twenty bucks to 
watch 
the island. You could use some cash and I could definatly use a break!"

  The two setled it out and Knuckles glid off the island.  When he grew 
close to the ground he found a tree or a house to land on and start 
again. 
It was lots of fun but when he saw a city up ahead of him he decided to 
take 
a look around.

  He soon bumped into Sonic.
"Hey! What are you doing here?!" He asked Knux, "YOU are suposed to be 
guarding your island!"
"Mighty took over for awhile! Now shut your over-sized mouth and leave 
my 
enjoy my holiday!" Knuckles snapped back, raising his fists to warn  
Sonic 
to leave him alone.
"You want a fight," Sonic said, "You got a fight!"
The started fighting and Knuckles punched Sonic in the face, who kicked 
Knux 
in the stomach. Knuckles kicked Sonnic in the you-now-where, causing 
him to 
stiffen and fall down making a high-pitch squeal.
"Don't fight! Please!" Someone said from the crowd who had gathered to 
watch 
the fight. The boy ran from the crowd. It was Tails.
"Why are you here?" Asked Knuckles, who had stopped staring proudly at 
Sonic 
lying helplessly on the ground.
" I came to tell Sonic about how the cloning machine I can't tell you 
exsists is done and he can come see it but you can't here me tell him 
about 
how can can try-it-out." He said, his voice growing smaller and more 
spaced 
around the end of his sentence, "Did I just-?" Tails said blushing.
Knuckles nodded, "Can I try it?"
"OK. But dont tell Sonic!"
"I won't." Knuckles vowed, raising his right hand.


   When Knuckles entered the room in which Tails called his home, there 
was 
a strange flashing and beeping.
"NO!" Tails yelled as if mobius was about to blow up, "Knuckles! Get 
out of 
here! It's functioning!"
"NO WAY!" Knux said bravly, "One Tails is enough! YOU go first!"
"NO! GO!" Tails shouted back, signaling to the door.
"Go before this thing-" Knuckles started, but was cut off by the 
machine.
"Now copying data." It said in a strange tone.
"OK! Bye Knux! Bye Knux-to-be!" Tails said waving to the machine before 
he 
ran out the door.
"wait for-" The door slammed in his face, hinges squeaking.
"Interuptions, iteruptions." Knuckles muttered before trying to open 
the 
door. But because of the oil-less hinges it wouldn't budge.

  "Hello." Said a cool, calm voice, much like Knuckles'.
"W-w-who are you?" Knuckles asked, not so cool and collected.
"Me? I am nothing to be afaid of." He replied, "I am you." He said.
(Pounding) "KNUCKLES! IT'S TAILS! BE CAREFUL! I LIVE IN SOMEONES ATTIC 
SO 
THERE'S ALOT OF BATS! IF THE MACHINE COPIED THEM THERE'D BE 'BOUT A 
MILLION 
OF EM!" It was Tails, who was terrified of bats and thought everyone 
was, 
yelling through the door causing his voice to be muffled.
Suddenly a big bat came. It was almost as big as knuckles and his 
cloned 
self, but when it spread it's wings it was at least double their size! 
It 
flew fast and bit Knuckles' twin on the neck.
"Aah!!" He cried pushing the bat away. It left and hung up-side-down 
from 
the ceiling. Knuckles' twin clutched his neck tight.
"Let me see!" Knuckles said to his twin. The double let go of his neck, 
revealing two little bite marks with blood dripping down. He let out a 
scream of pain and all of a sudden he began to change. His bright red 
self 
darkened to a dark red and his canine teeth grew longer and sharper. 
Scared, 
he turned to Knux. "W-w-what h-happened to me?" He stammered.
Knuckles backed up, "Y-you're a-a-a..." He said, not any calmer than 
his 
other self. He grabbed a mirror from a nearby pile of junk. He held it 
up to 
his twin's face but he pushed it down, "Before I look you have to 
promise me 
you'll never tell anyone." He said.
"Knuckles, are you all right?" Tails' muffled voice said from behind 
the 
door.
"Even him?" Knuckles asked the darker copy of him, "I mean, won't he 
wonder 
what happened?"
"He doesn't know it worked, does he?" The twin replied.
"You have a point. I won't, promise." Knuckles said, handing the mirror 
to 
the twin.
"I'm a vampire." He said quietly, "But I'll do good anyway. And you can 
call 
me Knic."
"OK," Knux said, "Where will you hide?"
"Floating Island" Knic said.
STAY TOONED FOR KNIC'S FIRST ADVENTURE: EVIL TO GOOD
AND HIS SECOND, FIGHT FOR A NEW WORLD!!!!!